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January 31, 2007

troubleshooting

Daylight Savings dilemma

Posted Jan. 31, ’07, 6:04 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Troubleshooting

Clock Most passionate Mac users are currently using Tiger, so the whole Daylight Savings Time change is mostly academic. For those that haven’t really been paying attention, let’s turn to Wikipedia of what has become an unnecessarily complex concept.

DST commonly begins in the northern hemisphere on the last Sunday in March or the first Sunday in April, and ends on the last Sunday in October. However, due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, beginning in 2007, the United States will begin observing DST from the second Sunday in March until the first Sunday in November. (Studies will determine if this remains permanent.) Most of Canada will also observe the new period to avoid possible economic losses from confusion with the United States. Since 2002, the European Union has fixed the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October as start and end dates (European Summer Time).

My. Head. Hurts. TidBITS has a nice breakdown. As long as you’ve updated to 10.4.6, you’ve got the official Apple fix and your clock will shift automatically. But wait, not everyone is using Tiger (I was shocked to hear this as well). If you’re using 10.3, you’re in luck, Ian Ward Comfort has come to your rescue with an unofficial fix.

Where’s Apple? Isn’t this one of those things that Apple needs to stay on top of despite development status? This type of problem will fade into the background as Apple slows its Mac OS X development cycle, but in the mean time, users without the latest and greatest should still get some minimal support.


3 Comments

Jason C. Leach said:

I posted a how-to tip on OS X hints about this:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070128185822710

Many US/Canada/Australia time zones will update just fine, however my Vancouver/Canada was not....

January 31, 2007 8:56 AM
Daniel said:

This is just another reason (one of many) why I love living in Hawaii. No Daylight Savings Time!

January 31, 2007 1:48 PM
Craig Rogers said:

I can't say that Apple is being all that bad by not supporting 10.3, Microsoft isn't supporting Windows 2000 unless you pay extra for a contract. So Microsoft is only supporting one version as well. (I won't count Vista at least until June)

February 1, 2007 4:02 PM

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